Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church

About this book

John Brownlie's translations of hymns from the Eastern church, published in 1902. Continuing his work of opening Greek hymnody to English readers, Brownlie renders festal and daily offices in clear verse, with notes on their origins. The collection highlights the doctrinal richness and Christ-centred praise of the historic Eastern liturgy.

Contents

1. Front Page
2. Preface
3. The Eastern Church
4. The Eastern Churches 🔒
5. Sacraments and Vestments 🔒
6. Church Architecture 🔒
7. Service Books 🔒
8. Veneration of Saints 🔒
9. The Greek and Roman Churches 🔒
10. Forms of Hymnody 🔒
11. Antiphon A (From the Office of Dawn) 🔒
12. Antiphon B (From the Office of Dawn) 🔒
13. Antiphon G (From the Office of Dawn) 🔒
14. Troparia 🔒
15. Troparion from the Third Canonical Hour 🔒
16. Kontakion-Automelon 🔒
17. Sticheron Idiomelon (Hymn of Anatolius) 🔒
18. Apolutikion 🔒
19. Troparia (From the Canon for Apocreos): Ode I 🔒
20. Troparia (From the Canon for Apocreos): Ode III 🔒
21. Stichera of Apocreos 🔒
22. Stichera of Apocreos 🔒
23. From the ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΥΡΙΝΗΖ: Ode I 🔒
24. From the ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΥΡΙΝΗΖ: Ode VII 🔒
25. Sticheron from the ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΥΡΙΝΗΣ 🔒
26. Troparia (from the Canon of the Resurrection): Ode IV 🔒
27. Troparia (from the Canon of the Resurrection): Ode VII 🔒
28. Troparia (from the Canon of the Resurrection): Ode VIII 🔒
29. Stichera (Sung after the Canon for Easter Day) 🔒
30. Sticheron of the Resurrection 🔒
31. Stichera of the Resurrection 🔒
32. Stichera of the Resurrection 🔒
33. Apolutikion of the Resurrection 🔒
34. Stichera Anatolika 🔒
35. Stichera of the Ascension 🔒
36. Hymn to the Trinity 🔒
37. Hymn to the Trinity 🔒
38. Hymn to the Trinity 🔒
39. Order of Holy Unction 🔒
40. Order of Holy Unction 🔒
41. From the Canon of the Dead: Ode VIII 🔒
42. Idiomela of S. John the Monk 🔒
43. Sticheron (From the Burial Office for a Layman) 🔒
44. Stichera (From the Burial Office for a Child) 🔒
45. Stichera 🔒
46. Vain the Bliss from Earth that Springs 🔒
47. Hail! The Morn with Gladness Crowned 🔒
48. Close Beside the Heart that Loves Me 🔒
49. The Time Shall Surely Come 🔒
50. The Transfiguration 🔒
51. Beyond the Clouds of Heaven 🔒
52. Triple Beam of Glory 🔒
53. O God of Light and Life and Joy 🔒
54. The Morn in Beauty Breaks 🔒
55. See Where the Orb of Day 🔒